Posted on 03/03/2011 4:23:00 PM PST by OwenKellogg
Vengeance is the L-rd’s, ‘tis written. This is true.
But now one of these Phelps goblins is soon going to be taken out, good and hard. Bloody pix, screaming ACLU, and all.
Not saying that’s right, I hasten to add. But desperate mourners may do desperate things, just sayin’.
The Supremes have denied any other available sanction. End of discussion.
We have seen what taking God out of societies has done (Nietzsche predicted it): Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, Pot.
I certainly do not think that the irrational thinking of the Postmoderns has anything to do with reason and logic, when they have tried to destroyed the most rational and universal religion in the history of man—Christianity.
To deny the moral aspect of man is more irrational than the concept of God.
“To educate the mind and not the morals is to educate a menace to society’’— President Teddy Roosevelt.
That is a great quote....it is the same as our Founders philosophy.
Too bad we have dumped our Constitution for some breathing marxist/atheist thing allowing our laws to degenerate into political (unjust) laws, instead of based on God’s Laws which is intent of our Constitution.
Thank you for the ping and the posting, dear OwenKellogg.
The ruling missed the point: those Westboro haters are there not for free speech, but to inflict injury.
That's exactly what Justice Alito said, among other things, in his dissent.
I agree.
If these scum can speak the most horrid things and their speech is protected, then there can be no where where we cannot pray.
Of course, only Congress (or at least the Federal government) can violate the First Amendment. Local/state laws do not. But try making that point today.
Resistance to this ruling bothers me greatly. It’s Alito, unfortunately, who’s wrong. For one thing, he’s confusing compassion with justice. More importantly, he’s missing the logical extension of his minority ruling: if it’s okay to nail Westboro with hate-speech, it’s going to be just fine to nail priests, ministers, rabbis—even in the semiprivacy of their churches and synagogues—with exactly the same “reasoning.” I’m surprised Mark Steyn hasn’t weighed in on this.
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